Don Cavalli - "New Hollywood Babylon" I picked him up on an on-ramp with no sign. Just a crown with the number 50 inside, and a buttload of trees in all directions except for straight ahead. We travelled for 4 hours without stopping and I'm not sure he even took a breath. He kept talking about "God Geometry", it was some kind of theory he was working on. His teeth had little yellow spots in the middle of each one, and sometimes he'd look out the window and I'd wonder if he even knew I [...]
A friend turned me on to Don Cavalli's Cryland shortly after it came out (2008), which I then promptly slept on until about six months ago. This was (indeed) my loss. Cavalli's debut, it turns out, is one Frenchman's take on swampy, gutbucket, rock & roll so steeped in deep southern imagery you'd swear it [...]

Parisian bluesman crosses the swampy sounds of the Delta with a subtle streak of pop. Released as a single on Monday. Posted in Video Tagged: cryland, Don Cavalli, Going To A River

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Here are another ten songs that have come to my attention this week. Seven are brand new but three are oldies/goldies that are just new to me (No doubt many will have heard them already). If you haven't, you're in for a treat. Without further ado: 'Love, Hugs & Hip-Hop' has a heaven sent chorus backed up by a delicious concoction of Kraftwerk and Jazz. Carlos Nino & Lil' Sci have created a brilliantly original sound with quivering Strings conjuring up the first sparkling rays of spring [...]

Got a random mix for you this time around. No particular theme or concept. Just some really good music. 01. Yeasayer - 2080 02. The Dragons - Your Way Too 03. Orgone - Sophisticated Honky 04. The Lions - Jungle Struttin' 05. Don Cavalli - New Hollywood Babylon 06. [...]
Don Cavalli - New Hollywood Babylon With another entry in the book of "out of left field" comes France's Don Cavalli. I got his new album CryLand a while back from his little US label, LA's Everloving (who released the Cornelius album last year and Metric's Old World the year before), and I find myself wanting to listen to it a lot. As in, listen to it over and over. Now, one thing about Cavalli that I find completely fascinating is the fact that his music - stripped down, lo-fi blues, usually just his voice, drums, and guitar, either...